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This weekend, the Sunday drama 'Tonbi' (TBS) solidified itself as the most popular drama of the spring season after the long-running detective drama 'Aibou', at least in terms of ratings. The family drama aired its grand finale this week and managed to record a great episode-rating of 20.3%, which is the highest single-epi

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The world baseball classics greatly influenced the programming and the ratings of the weekend. NHK's taiga drama 'Yae no Sakura' was the biggest loser among the weekend dramas and recorded a new personal negative record of 12.6%, which meant a drop of 2.5% compared to the previous Sunday. 'dinner' (Fuji TV) and 'Karamazov no K

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No weekend drama was able to improve its season-average this week, which was also due to the 2013 World Baseball Classics that shifted many viewers towards a single network.
The biggest and almost only improvement compared to the previous week was recorded by 'Yakou Kanransha' (TBS) with a plus of 1.6%. It was also

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This weekend, 'Nobunaga no Chef' (TV Asahi) and 'Nakuna, Hara-chan' (NTV) were able to polish their season-average a little. While the former actually recorded its highest rating so far this season with 11.8%, the latter recorded the best improvement of all weekend dramas compared to last week with a rise of 1.3%.
The highest dram

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No drama was able to improve its season-average rating over the weekend, but 'Yae no Sakura' (NHK) shrugged off last week's poor rating that was caused by the extended weekend and the figure skating competition on another network. 'Yakou Kanransha' (TBS) also managed to regain a good amount of viewers compared to last we

On February 16th, Oricon BiZ published the results of their recent survey that asked 500 men and women about their drama viewing experience among the current winter season shows. NHK drama 'Itsuka Hi no Ataru Basho de' came out on top with a very high satisfaction rate of 67.5%, though it only ranked on 11th place in Oricon's survey about the most anticipated dramas prior to the start of the winter season.
Those polled asked viewers to

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Three dramas were able to improve their average ratings over the last four days - 'dinner' (Fuji TV), 'Hancho 6' (TBS), and 'Nobunaga no Chef' (TV Asahi).
The other dramas had difficulties finding their audience on the extended weekend with a public holiday on Monday. Especially with Fuji TV's 'Four Continents Figure Skating

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There were only a few dramas that managed to improve their average ratings during the last seven days. Among them was 'Aibou season11' (TV Asahi) which recorded a great return after a one-week break. 'Yakou Kanransha' (TBS), 'Nobunaga no Chef' (TV Asahi), and 'Itsuka Hi no Ataru Basho de' (NHK) also improved their average ratings with e

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The ratings for Friday and the weekend have been released.
'Yakou Kanransha' (TBS) and 'Karamazov no Kyodai' (Fuji TV) were among the winners of the last three days. They haven't only gained viewers compared to last week, but also improved their average ratings. 'dinner' (Fuji TV) was able to improve its season a

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Two new winter dramas have found their way onto the TV screen during the weekend.
On Friday, the mystery and suspense family/society drama 'Yakou Kanransha' (TBS) made its premiere during the 10:00 pm time slot. Suzuki Kyoka, Ishida Yuriko and the remaining cast were able to attract 11.7% of the viewers with a story ba